Asus Zenfone 5 A500KL

Overview Asus Zenfone 5 A500KL

Important update: this model is updated to Android version 5 Lollipop.
Check the availability of the update version in your region on the manufacturer’s website.

Android version and market relevance

Dual-smartphone Asus Zenfone 5 A500KL introduced a company Asus in June 2014. It has Android version 4.4 KitKat, which if you want, you can update to version 5.

Well, what can I say, Asus Zenfone 5 A500KL is a smartphone of 2014 with fairly normal characteristics, which is located in our price segment “Below average smartphones from $200 to $300”.

Screen, body and battery

IPS LCD touchscreen with a diagonal 5″ mounted on the front panel Asus Zenfone 5 A500KL, thickness 10.3 mm.

The battery in Asus Zenfone 5 A500KL is installed on 2 110 mAh. It can be said that by today′s standards, such a volume is inadequate, and you will miss one charge per day of active work.

Main camera and selfie camera

Asus Zenfone 5 A500KL is not a camera phone, because it has a main camera on 8 MP. If you want to make a lot of high-quality photos and video on your smartphone, we advise you to look in the catalog on camera phones, whose cameras are more than 20 MP. In addition to the main camera, which is very important, it is also worth paying attention to the quality of the pictures from the front camera. And here at this model the front-seat camera got its 2 MP, which is very little. If you really want to make quality smartphones on the smartphone, we advise you to look in the catalog selfie smartphones, in which the frontcamera of 13 Mp.

Processor and Internal Memory

Smartphone Asus Zenfone 5 A500KL received a 4-core processor Snapdragon 400, RAM 1 GB and built-in memory 8 GB. Also there is support for memory cards microSD up to 64 GB.

Price for Asus Zenfone 5 A500KL: buy or not to buy?

If you are looking for a camera phone, then this is not the model that suits you. If you need a smartphone with a huge touch screen, then this is not the model you are looking for. If you are looking for selfie smartphone (smartphone with a very cool front camera for shooting selfie), then this is not the model you need to buy.

Let′s step back from the lyrics and talk about money. Selling Asus Zenfone 5 A500KL will begin in July 2014 at a price of $210. There are analogues of this model from its price segment “Below average smartphones from $200 to $300”, you can choose any smartphone for the same money.

We recommend buying a new smartphone only from trusted sellers. And preferably before buying the phone hold in your hand, to feel the dimensions of his hand and look at all of its external signs (build quality and materials). Then turn it on and check the touch screen (there should be no “broken” pixels, color gradient), open several built-in applications to assess the speed and smoothness of the interface. Be sure to launch the “Camera” application and take a few photos and videos, then view them (there should be no artifacts or traces of dust on the lens or glass).